SES HD+ passes 1m subs

By Chris Forrester

SES’s HD+ venture is making considerable progress in Germany. SES says that during 2012 it more than doubled its paying subscriber base from 404,123 to 944,993. That number has continued to grow through January and has now passed the 1 million mark. SES says that its total number of active subscribers (paying, or in a ‘free trial’ period) now topped 2.87 million, up 570,000 in a year.

“In less than 40 months, HD+ has developed from a start-up into an important factor in the German television market,” said Wilfried Urner, Managing Director of the HD PLUS affiliate. “HD+ will continue to be a strong driver of HDTV content in Germany. We will continue to develop the HD+ offer with new products like HD+ RePlay, which gives access to the media libraries of commercial broadcasters.”